Update from John: Apparently, what we took to be food court trays are actually meat trays which I think we all can agree, is sooo much better. And it raises a question: is it even cake or is it some lovely ground chuck slathered in mashed potatoes? The world may never know!(Unless, of course, somebody bought one and ate it. Then we'd probably know. Ya know?)

As I read this morning's post, I kept singing one of Anya's lines from "Once More With Feeling" (The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Musical)...

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes,They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.And what's with all the carrots-?What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!

I can't believe you knew the VeggieTales song! My son (shhh....he's 10!) is a huge fan of The Bunny Song and other VeggieTales. Also, we like to sit down together and read cakewrecks. I can't wait for him to get up and see this. Awesome! Oh, and John? Thanks (I think) for the meat tray clarification!

We weren't supposed to sing The Bunny Song anymore, but that was the OLD Bunny Song, the one that said, "The bunny, the bunny, ooh I love the bunny. I don't love my mom or my dad, just the bunny." The song was so popular that the message of the video got lost and they had to go back and rewrite it!

Do you think you could put a link to the Veggietales song in the post. I think a lot of your British fans might not have heard of it. Shocking as I know that must seem.Can anyone tell me when the yellow bunny evolved? I can't say I've ever seen one of those before!

I LOVE VEGGIE TALES!I own all of the VeggieTales dvds (I started collecting them long before having kids :)

I should send you a pic of the VeggieTales cake that I had someone make for my daughter's 2nd B-day. The girl who made it had never heard of them. She did her best (and I still thought it was cute and a 2 yr old wouldn't know the difference) but it was definitely a wreck!

One year for April fools day I made meat loaves in cup cake tins and frosted them with mashed potatoes with food coloring in them. So maybe you aren't far off on those meat tray bunnies! Today is March 31st, they are just stocking up early.

The store I worked in had the half round cakes with the plastic bunny face stuck to them with the coconut in a rainbow assortment of artificial coloring. They reminded me of tires with bunny masks. The store is gone but oh were they scary.

Did no one else see the girl Ewok ('80's cartoon version)instead of a squished cartoon mouse?

Waiting in antici...pation for the Rabbit of Caerbannog - thought he might be lurking behind the demon lambs of yore but no. None of today's "bunnies" (you've taught us well how to use quotation marks) are deceptively innocent enough.

BTW - my first post after reading this blog for a year- and buying multiple copies of the book!- and I FINALLY understand what everyone's doing with the wv. Ah-ha! (Mine was sefition - This is sefition for my first post.)

Creepy cakes, Great song. At least the Veggie Tales bunny was chocolate. Styrofoam ground beef trays, what's up with that? Is their meat in cake boxes? And to answer the question about singing the Bunny song anymore, there is a new and improved version on one of the Veggie Tales sing along videos.

Seriously, you need to get "Kill da Wabbit" by Metallica going in the background-that would have been just that extra little touch that this post needed. You know, like cakes on meat trays....and stuff....

"Mara" reminds me of the evil bunny in Donnie Darko. *Shudder* On another note: This whole post is like a huge mix and match game. I think our part in it is to figure out which ears belong on which animal (why are there antlers and troll ears on these easter treats?)

Seriously Jen, you might be the most perfect person ever. You're the only other person I've come in contact with (well, you know, contact of some sort) that simultaneously loves VeggieTales, Star Trek, and Doctor Who. I mean, how much cooler could you possibly get? I'm just saying...

Whoa! I've never even considered a jackalope cake before, but those -- uh, "lovely" -- things on the food trays have GOT to be jackalopes. And I had no idea that jackalopes were involved in helping the Easter bunny.Gosh, you just learn things every day.

SteveThePocket-"Classic VeggieTales. Back when their characters were allowed to threaten murder and sing songs about skipping church to worship a bunny statue. You know, for kids!"

There are many examples of fairy tales/children's stories with shocking negative examples in them. In the original Red Riding Hood, both the girl and her granny got eaten. In the original Cinderella, the evil sisters cut their feet down to size to fit into the slipper.

In the stories that have stood the test of time, the hero/heroine overcomes the negative circumstance, and emerges stronger.

In the original Bible story, obviously there were no chocolate bunnies, but there was a statue, a furnace, and a death threat. Actually attempted murder that was unsuccessful. Veggie Tales toned it down a bit, in fact. :)

Ya know. . . you may be onto something with the mashed potatoes explanation. . .especially if heaped over a pile of hamburger meat. Not that I want to admit it, but I've left mashed potatoes in the back of the fridge long enough to develop multicolored clusters of molds and bacteria! Imagine the possibilities if there was raw meat underneath! Whoa. Wait. I don't have to imagine. I think you pegged it. Kathleen

Wow where to begin...the first bunny looks like it is either terrified or perhaps the holographic ears are better conductors than thought and he is being electrocuted.i agree that these bunnies are super scary the one that is coming out of the yellow coconut coccoon kind of looks like a killer alien bunny. and the jackalopes with boobs are just scary. hopefully y'all realize that the styrofoam trays do not start with meat on them they come as a stack of styrofoam trays that they put meat on although i have seen many other bakeries use them for cookies and such.the last one looks like it has boxing gloves on(wv:pelyzess-pleyzess no more scary binnies)

I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one who thought the alien gophers had boobs. Careful, we might end up with an Epcot pic there for all the indecency in that picture! (do they count alien animal nudity as indecent??)

I'm reading the first line saying "They didn't. No, wait. They DID." Then I clicked on the link and found out that indeed, you DID. :) Veggietales rock. Totally funny reference. I would never eat one of thoes "I-just-got-flattened-by-a-steam-roller-and-STILL-all-the-king's-horses-and-all-the-king's-men-couldn't-put-me-back-togeather-again" sorry excuses for cakes. Blech. That is one way to ruin your Easter morning. "Hey, kids; forget thoes candy eggs: Here's something you *really* want for breakfast!" Aw, yeahhh, mommy. You de bomb.

What's worse: That people are making these works of "art", or that they are actually selling them???

The bonus bit of fangirl squeal is when I see your blog reposted by a local bakery facebook page (Missoula, MT) that has the worst fugly decorated cakes ever! That's saying something when your Easter Bunny Rant of fugly bunnies (or were those lambs?) even has fugly decorators squirming!

Animal flashcards for bakers are sounding like a better and better idea.The set should also include the correct spellings of some common cake inscriptions, like "Happy Birthday," "Congratulations," "It a Gril," and "Happy FalkerSatherhood."

WV: ingesser. The ingesser of these cakes is likley to have a tummyache.

Absolutely hilarious post (as usual). I'm a long-time reader of this site, but honestly I think these are some of the worst cakes I've ever seen. At some point you have to ask: Are these even food anymore?

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Is that first shocked bunny having a colonoscopy with that face? And is he suffering from hypothermia? (BLUE? really? is it a boy?) but the chicks are really cute. I love how the one is looking right at me. aww...little green beak.

#2 is deranged. and apparently sick. the eyes I cannot explain.

#3: sheep? mouse? not a bunny with those round ears. and ugly regardless.

nice electrified whiskers on #4. also shocking. or shocked, like he's about to be pounced on by a predator. but a yellow body with white coconut flakes and a white head? what is the logic here?

haybale bunny is pretty pathetic. just slap a flotsam head to the side of a yellow coconut encrusted blob. must have been a trainee.

#6. I had to look twice. I thought those were antlers. then I though Jen accidentally posted reindeer cakes. until I saw the eggs. and are those olive eyes?? what's with the airbrushed spotted bodies? could the decorator not decide whether to make it an animal or an egg? or tried to make bunnies that looked like eggs? with antlers? and danish faced?

If those are food court trays, those are mighty big "bunnies". They must weigh 10 lbs a piece. I particularly love the black olive eyes. The children will be fighting over the piece with the big salty black eyes!

Someone loves coconut to make those cakes.. I can't even tell if that first cake is a bunny or an alien with rabbit ears. Even one of the chicks has fallen over in laughter at that thing. And those two whatchamacalits on the meat trays.. maybe they are piles of meat disguised as deranged rabbits I can't even stop laughing to tell what the heck the wreckerator was up to on those.

On the bright side,you won't have much guilt in your head about eating those bunnies. By guilt I mean the kind you get thinking "Omigod, it's so cute I can't eat it". Guys, you probably don't have this. And with the alien gophers, I could have sworn those ears were antlers when I first looked at them. the cheeks of the one rabbit look like playdoh hamburger patties. In fact, I think I can see a bit of the other half of the bun emerging from underneath its coconut encrusted...er..."skin".

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